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Brian Jean releases health-care platform in bid to lead UCP

Last Updated Aug 14, 2017 at 4:46 pm MDT

Wildrose Leader Brian Jean casts his vote during the Unity Vote at the Wildrose Special General Meeting in Red Deer, Alta., on Saturday, July 22, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

CALGARY – One of the candidates to lead Alberta’s new right-of-centre party says he would reform health-care funding to focus more on patients, improve wait times and end “divorce by nursing home.”

Brian Jean, the former Wildrose leader who is running for the leadership of the United Conservative Party, released his health-care platform in Calgary.

Jean says simply spending more money isn’t going to fix a system that is failing Alberta families.

He says health-care costs have been rising for years, but outcomes for patients and seniors continue to decline.

His policy includes using more home care and flexible seniors facilities to stop couples being separated in nursing homes.

Jean is proposing incentives for doctors to focus more on prevention to reduce costs.